Chao-wei Hwang
Distinguished in Heart Attack
Distinguished in Heart Attack
5450 Knoll North Drive, Suite 300, Suite 300, 
Columbia, MD 

Overview

Dr. Chao-Wei Hwang is an interventional cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hwang received doctoral and medical training at Harvard Medical School. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology fellowships at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Hwang joined the Division of Cardiology as faculty in 2011. He spent a year at Virtua Health System in New Jersey as systemwide Director of Interventional Cardiology, and is now Director of the Johns Hopkins Interventional Cardiology Program at Frederick Health Hospital (FHH) and Co-Medical Director of the FHH Cardiac Catheterization Lab. Dr. Hwang is an expert interventional cardiologist specializing in complex coronary interventions, management of acute coronary syndromes and advanced coronary artery disease. He has specialized expertise in PCI of chronic total occlusions (CTO). Dr. Hwang has been involved in a number of device and coronary clinical trials, and his broad areas of research interests include developing and optimizing devices for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Dr. Hwang has published extensively in stent-based drug delivery systems and local delivery systems for cell-based therapies to the heart.

Dr. Hwang is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Attack. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Angioplasty, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 9 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 5 articles in the study of Heart Attack.

Graduate Institution
Harvard School Of Arts And Sciences, PhD, 2002
Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2007
Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiology
Licenses
Internal Medicine in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Internal Medicine
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Interventional Cardiology, 2011
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Cardiology, 2010
Hospital Affiliations
George Washington Univ Hospital
Frederick Health Hospital
Suburban Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Male

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Locations

Johns Hopkins Endoscopy & Surgery Center - Columbia
5450 Knoll North Drive, Suite 300, Suite 300, Columbia, MD 21045

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


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